Retired technical writer, still-functioning musician. Longtime Balloon Juice lurker and sometimes commenter.
James Langdell
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
When Reagan had come along and put a stop to that visionary work, along with tearing out the White House's solar panels, the publisher had to face shutting down that new part of its operation, which led to my being laid off from working largely for the pulp & paper wing.
When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
cait (and adonis)
The company had responded to Carter's initiatives by launching a magazine and books to get out information across that new field.
Philip Bump
James Langdell
James Langdell
1/ My Jane Goodall story: I had heard speak when I was a kid; I don't remember if my parents took me up to meet her after the talk.
A few years later I was 14 and we were visiting my uncle at his farm on Salisbury plain in Hampshire.
One afternoon we were summoned into the sitting room for tea...
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
This reminds me of my life in the early 1980s when I was working for a publisher of industrial magazines and references for mainly resource based industries (coal, petroleum, trees).
Still, I'd rather to have the progress towards alternative energy sources (and the metric system for that matter) to have continued another four years.
Coverage of the deceased President Carter's career include his support in the late 1970s for alternative fuels and installation of solar panels at the White House.
